I felt the need to put my proverbial tuppenceworth into the discussion on gay marriage, for two reasons:
1. Gay marriage is a crucial step in redefining the outdated patriarchal nuclear family and helping ensure that gay couples who so choose can live with certain rights.
2. I got married last month to my partner, on the [...]
Just met this girl and weve fallen hard and fast. She may be my everything.. but she has 2 children at 22?!!!! This is an unheard of language to me.
OK… here’s the big thing that’s crazy. And that I just-so-happen to be “suffering” from… I mean, I’m enjoying it, but whatever…
The big thing? My body thinks I’m Preggers…as I have a bad back, bad knees, and cannot lay on my stomach when sleeping. Well, the last one isn’t really because of pain, it’s because [...]
My lover and I are that breed of non-breeders: namely a lesbian couple who adopt as many species as possible. Ironically, the concept of a substitute family didn’t cross our Sapphic minds until a friend’s assertion became a Eureka moment- only without the nudity or bubbles. Apropos the photo, of one of our clan: namely [...]
Taking a quick break from my work to comment on this topic-of-the month. I worked for 5 years in a law office where the attorneys were Guardians ad Litem, appointed by the courts in cases of child neglect and abuse. Additionally, the office also did adoptions. Mainly, the adoptions were the stepparent type, where a [...]
I know this is going to be way off topic, but I had to vent. I am getting to be a bitter lesbian. My wonderful wife and I are trying to conceive our first child together and it is bringing up a lot of bitterness in me towards the straight world. I already had a [...]
So. Family, eh? Two-point-four children (I’m sure the average must’ve gone up by now) and Stacy Has Two Mommies. I would class myself as having an LGBT family…well, I fulfill the ‘L’ criteria and my Significant Other the ‘T’, which I guess makes us an LT family. Now, that’s quite odd I suppose because, to [...]
It is an interesting situation….being out to your kids. I do not know how it feels to have adult children and breaking the news to them. All I know is what I’ve been through. I know within my heart and soul that had I known or understood I was a lesbian before my daughter entered [...]